Candy-box.



PATBNTBD MAR. 10, 1903.

C. A. ADAMS. CANDY BOX.

APPLIoAfrInN FILED PEB. 2. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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Nirnn STATES PATE r Enron,

CHARLES A. ADAMS, OF DCRCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,199, dated March 10, 1903.

Application filed February 2,1903. Serial No.141,4=29. (No model.)

and exact description, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a new and improved box in the shape of a toy bird-house, preferably a chicken-house, with an imitation rope fence around a chickengarden, the chicken-house being designed and so arranged as to conceal from view another box which is adapted to hold for its contents candy, nuts, or similar articles, the outer or house box being arranged in the form of an Easter novelty for use as an ornamentation or as a toy for children after its use as a candybox has been fulfilled. Its novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts will be substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a perspective View of my box as it will look when closed. Fig. 2 is a side sectional view of the candy-box, the chicken-house, and its contiguous parts.

In the drawings, ct represents the chickenhouse, and b the ground or flooring upon which it rests. The house a consists of the two end pieces g g and the two side pieces h h, connected by a horizontal piece m, which part serves as a cover to the inner box. The end pieces g g extend upward to a point and carry the slanting pieces t' i', which serve as a roof to the chicken-house. Upon the sides of the box may be painted windows, chicken-doors, dto., the whole being arranged so as to entirely cover the inner box proper, which inner box is adapted to hold candy and consists of the bottom part j and the four side walls 7c. The bottom j is fastened to a second bottom piece b, which is arranged to extend beyond the sides 7c of the inner box and also beyond the sides h of the outer box and serve as an ornamental base for the house, and the piece b may be extended considerably beyond one of the sides h, as at b, so as to allow of an imitation chicken-yard, which may consist of the gold or silver cord or other string made to represent a rope fence attachedto one or more fence-posts c, c', e2, and e3. Within the chicken-yard or upon the box part o may be fastened one or more birds or chickens.

Havingr thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A candy-box, in the shape of a birdhouse, having inner and outer boxes, the inner box adapted to hold candy, the outer box provided with a slantiug top and having an imitation covering to represent a bird-house, and one or more imitation birds attached to the top of the box, a partition extending acrosse the inner upper part of said box and adapted to form the cover to the inner box, the outer box arranged to conceal the inner box, and the inner box affixed to a secondary base extending beyond the sides of the outer box, substantially as shown and described.

2. A candy-box, in the shape of a chicken house and yard, havingiuner and outerboxes, a secondary bottom ixed to the inner box which extends beyond the walls of said outer box and having on one side thereof an imitation fence, the outer box having an imitation covering to represent a chicken-house, the inner box adapted to hold candy, nuts, or the like and to be entirely concealed by the outer box, and one or more chickens attached to the top of the box or upon the secondary platform of the inner box, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES A. ADAMS.

Witnesses:

CHARLES F. A. SMITH, WALTER E. LOMBARD. 

